Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 146.004 · Chapter 146. LOCAL CONTROL OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT MATTERS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES
PETITION FOR RECOGNITION: ELECTION OR ACTION BY GOVERNING BODY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Not later than the 30th day after the date the governing body of a municipality receives from an employee association a petition signed by the majority of all covered employees that requests recognition of the association as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all the covered employees, the governing body shall:
(1) grant recognition of the association as requested in the petition and find that a public employer may meet and confer under this chapter without conducting an election by the voters in the municipality under Section 146.006;
(2) defer granting recognition of the association and order an election by the voters in the municipality under Section 146.006 regarding whether a public employer may meet and confer under this chapter; or
(3) order a certification election under Section 146.005 to determine whether the association represents a majority of the covered employees.
(b) If the governing body of a municipality orders a certification election under Subsection (a)(3) and the association named in the petition is certified to represent a majority of the covered employees, the governing body shall, not later than the 30th day after the date that results of that election are certified:
(1) grant recognition of the association as requested in the petition for recognition and find that a public employer may meet and confer under this chapter without conducting an election by the voters in the municipality under Section 146.006; or
(2) defer granting recognition of the association and order an election by the voters in the municipality under Section 146.006 regarding whether a public employer may meet and confer under this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1144 (H.B. 2866), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2005.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.146.htm
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Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 146.005CERTIFICATION ELECTION.Printed as Section 146.004(a)(3)
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 146.006ELECTION TO AUTHORIZE OPERATING UNDER THIS CHAPTER.Printed as Section 146.004
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 146.009RECOGNITION OF EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION.Printed as Section 146.004 or 146.005
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 146.015ACTION OR ELECTION TO REPEAL AUTHORIZATION TO OPERATE UNDER THIS CHAPTER.Printed as Section 146.004
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